Quotes About Emotion

I'm not knocking conceptual art; it's another department, but it doesn't move me like painting.

I look at music like an art form, so it's almost like painting for me, you know?

Painting is as close as a person can get to actually capturing the heat of the moment.

I hate painting.

I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness.

There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color.

A painting has to be beautiful. Even in its grotesqueness.

A painting is like a man. If you can live without it, then there isn't much point in having it.

I sometimes use a lot of light greens and greys when I feel there is sadness in the painting.

So when I'm playing, I'm sort of painting a feeling in the air.

When I go to an art gallery and stand in front of a painting, I don't want someone telling me what I should be seeing or thinking; I want to feel whatever I feel, see whatever I see, and figure out what I figure out.

Painting is a coalescing of experience.

I love film - it's like painting.

We try to buy from living artists because we love to understand why they are painting or sculpting and get into their minds.

Sometimes people only see horrible, terrible things in my paintings.

I saw Frank Frazetta's art, and it seared on my memory. I love his paintings. They're so amazing.

Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown.

There's something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. That's something I wanted in my paintings.

I have some beautiful 20th-century drawings and a few paintings, but I'm not a collector, and I'm not particularly attached to objects.

Painting is almost like a sport. It's like this action thing. When I do it, I'm really not thinking. The paintings are like a diary that I might not want to read again.

Poetry offers works of art that are beautiful, like paintings, which are my second favorite work of the art, but there are also works of art that embody emotion and that are kind of school for feeling. They teach how to feel, and they do this by the means of their beauty of language.

I like to use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.

Doing theater, I call it concentrated shampoo. You put a dime in the palm of your hand and you get a headful of lather. When you do a play, you're there for two and a half hours, and you live a lifetime.